VILLANOVA — The Final Four had been set for decades: Duke, North Carolina, Kansas and Kentucky were crowned as college basketball's royalty.

They are the bluebloods of basketball — where deep NCAA Tournament runs are the norm, NBA prospects play, hardwood rules the sports landscape and an air of superiority reigns in programs rich in tradition and with alumni rich enough to help fund state-of-the-art practice facilities or arenas.

Grandpa might tell you UCLA or Indiana should still be in the mix. Maybe the kids like Michigan State or Arizona.

But a fifth team has firmly crashed the field: Villanova. Its fans turn up their noses at the Philly schools while the team turns up the heat in the Big East and is positioned for a second national championship in three years.

The road to the best program in hoops may start where the original rules of the game are housed at Kansas, hit Tobacco Road, head to the home of the one-and-done prospect in Lexington but it ends on the Main Line, a wealthy stretch of Philadelphia suburbs home to Villanova.

Don't believe it? Take a look at the Wildcats' resume by the numbers headed into Saturday's Final Four game against Kansas (31-7):

— 134. Wins (and counting). The most by any program over a four-year span.

— 30. The magic number for Villanova. The Wildcats have won 33, 35, 32 games the previous three years and are 34-4 this season.

— 6. Sweet 16s under coach Jay Wright.

— 3. Final Fours since 2009.

— 1. National championship under Wright in 2016.

— 420. Wins under Wright, the most in team history.

There's another number worth noting: $60 million. It's the expected cost of the renovation funded by donors of Villanova's on-campus arena when it reopens next season. The Wildcats played this season at the home of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, the Wells Fargo Center — where they went a sparkling 11-1.

Any way you count it, the Wildcats' decade of dominance has turned their blood as blue as their “V” logo.

“We consistently had very good players,” Wright said. “It's a part of guys staying healthy, guys staying in the program, good recruiting, getting lucky in recruiting over a period of time.”

The Wildcats soared to the top of the AP Top 25, earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and won another Big East Tournament title without a senior on the roster.